The father of "Mr. Market," a device used to humanize the behavior of the markets to investors and a guiding principle for many of today;s most successful investors. that group includes Warren Buffett who named Graham as one of his biggest influences in his own biography The Snowball.

"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria" - Sir John Templeton

Templeton chose to distance himself from Wall Street by investing primarily in British and Japanese markets, an unprecedented move that made him a very wealthy man and jump started the trend of global investment portfolios.

"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark" - Jack Anderson

A Washington DC-based "Investigative Columnist" who made many enemies during his colorful career, Anderson worked the lines between government and finance with an uncanny eye for graft, and drove Wall Street as crazy as Capitol Hill.